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27.10.2022

100th Anniversary of One of the Greatest Poems of the 20th Century – National Library of Scotland Blog

October 2022 marks the centenary of the publication of T. S. Eliot’sThe Waste Land. Arguably themost influential poemwritten in English in the 20thcentury, it marked a turning point in modernist literature. Although the poem’s origins arose in the desolation of post-World War I Europe, its myriadthe

National Library of Scotland Blog

03.11.2022

Ian Rankin and the Missing Person Case of Jack Harvey – National Library of Scotland Blog

In 1993, the novel ‘Witch Hunt’ appeared in bookshops. But who was the author, Jack Harvey, seemingly a first-time novelist? Given his now familiar status as the biggest-selling contemporary writer of crime fiction in the UK it is hardly a secret. But at the time this was not an easy mystery to solv

National Library of Scotland Blog

19.11.2022

“Christine Strathern imbues this romantic story with all her own abiding love for her native Scotland”   – National Library of Scotland Blog

The Scottish author Nancy Brysson Morrison (1903-1986) is chiefly remembered today for her novel ‘The Gowk Storm’ a story about three daughters of a Scottish church minister. First published in 1933, the book was reissued as part of the Canongate Classics series in 1988. Morrison’s first two books w

National Library of Scotland Blog

30.11.2022

The many names of Laurence James – National Library of Scotland Blog

The National Library of Scotland is a Legal Deposit library, which means we build our collections by requesting a copy of every book published in the UK and Ireland. Thanks to Legal Deposit the Library is home to probably the largest collection of popular fiction in Scotland. If you are interested i

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